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| Title: | Irrigation and Soil Conservation in African Agricultural History |
| Author: | Sutton, John E.G. |
| Year: | 1984 |
| Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
| Volume: | 25 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 25-41 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Tanzania Zimbabwe |
| Subjects: | agricultural history irrigation Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment History and Exploration colonialism |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/181357 |
| Abstract: | The archaeological study of African history has concentrated more on origins and the identification of crop remains than on farming techniques and ancient fields. The few instances of preserved fields which exist have been regarded as relics of 'intensive' cultivation by 'vanished civilisations'. However, a clearer understanding of African agriculture, through ethnographic and ecological approaches, reveals not only its basically extensive character but also the infinite variety of local specializations. Inyanga in eastern Zimbabwe and Engaruka in the northern Tanzanian rift are two examples sustaining this view. Notes. |
